σιμότης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed, flat nosed”) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /siː.mó.tɛːs/ → /siˈmo.tis/ → /siˈmo.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /siː.mó.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈmo.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈmo.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈmo.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈmo.tis/

Noun

σῑμότης • (sīmótēs) f (genitive σῑμότητος); third declension

1. the shape of a snub nose, snubbiness

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σῑμότης; τῆς σῑμότητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῑμότης hē sīmótēs	τὼ σῑμότητε tṑ sīmótēte	αἱ σῑμότητες hai sīmótētes
Genitive	τῆς σῑμότητος tês sīmótētos	τοῖν σῑμοτήτοιν toîn sīmotḗtoin	τῶν σῑμοτήτων tôn sīmotḗtōn
Dative	τῇ σῑμότητῐ têi sīmótēti	τοῖν σῑμοτήτοιν toîn sīmotḗtoin	ταῖς σῑμότησῐ / σῑμότησῐν taîs sīmótēsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῑμότητᾰ tḕn sīmótēta	τὼ σῑμότητε tṑ sīmótēte	τᾱ̀ς σῑμότητᾰς tā̀s sīmótētas
Vocative	σῑμότης sīmótēs	σῑμότητε sīmótēte	σῑμότητες sīmótētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Further reading

• “σιμότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σιμότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σιμότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette